Rockin' Chair
is a reunion of members from 70’s regional bands Mesa and Nickels. This
eight member band performs a show that celebrates the
music of Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, and the groups that were later
formed by their members. These musicians and songwriters created the
supergroups of the 70's including Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and
The Eagles. Other performers from the period included
Firefall, Loggins and Messina, Little Feat, Poco and Jackson Browne. Rockin' Chair performances also include music by The Allman Brothers Band, The Doobie Brothers and The Marshall Tucker Band.

“Do
you want to hear the best story you’ve ever heard in your life?” Andrea
Gibson asks into the microphone. The audience leans forward in silent
anticipation. “So I met this woman and I went home to her house with
her.” She pauses, “already a great story.” The audience erupts with
laughter, a happy juxtaposition after being so quietly captivated.
Smirking into the spotlight, Andrea continues, “…So we’re about to kiss
for the very first time. And right before our lips touch, she jumps from
the bed, runs to the closet and grabs a stethoscope, puts the ear
thingies in my ears and slides the knob down her shirt onto her heart
and says, ‘I want you to listen to my heart speed up when you kiss me.’
And I kissed her! And her heart got faster and faster y’all.” By this
point the room itself almost feels like a stethoscope pumping with the
galloping hearts of the fans. “Moral of the story, buy a stethoscope,”
Gibson says, and there’s that laughter again, followed by music, and
they launch into a love poem – with the members of the audience mouthing
along. You’re not alone if when you hear, “poetry show” and don’t
envision a scene like this. But then chances are you’ve never seen
Andrea Gibson perform live. One of
the most celebrated and successful poets in the field began their
career in 1999 with a break-up poem at an open mic in Boulder, Colorado.
Gibson then leaped into the forefront of spoken word poetry on the
national scene in 2008 when they won the first ever Woman of the World
Poetry Slam. Author of three collections of poetry and currently working
on an illustrated collection of their most memorable quotes for Penguin
(Winter 2018), Andrea (they/them/their) has also released seven (7)
full-length albums.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Alabama Comes To The Family Arena

WHAT:
It's been 40 years since a
trio of young cousins left Fort Payne, Alabama, to spend the summer
playing in a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, bar called The Bowery. It
took Randy
Owen, Teddy Gentry and Jeff Cook six long years of tip jars and word of
mouth to earn the major label deal they'd been dreaming of, but then
seemingly no time at all to change the face of country music.

ALABAMA is the band that changed everything. They reeled off 21
straight #1 singles, a record that will probably
never be equaled in any genre. They brought youthful energy, sex appeal
and a rocking edge that broadened country's audience and opened the
door to self-contained bands from then on, and they undertook a journey
that led, 73 million albums later, to the Country
Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The
fact that some of the heirs of that legacy--Eli Young Band, Rascal
Flatts and Florida Georgia Line--are among the stars paying tribute on
“Alabama & Friends”
is part of their legacy as surely as the awards and plaudits they've
earned through the years. And those, of course, have been legion. They
include more than 150 major industry nods, including two Grammys, the
Minnie Pearl Humanitarian award, Entertainer of
the Year awards three times from the CMA and five times from the ACM,
as well as the latter's Artist of the Decade award. They earned 21 Gold
®, Platinum ® and Multi-Platinum ® albums and were named the RIAA's
Country Group of the Century.

WHEN:
Saturday, January 20, 2017 @ 7:30pm

WHERE:
The Family Arena -
2002 Arena Parkway * St. Charles, MO 63303

Tickets can be purchased at the
Family Arena Ticket Office or online at www.metrotix.com.

To charge by phone call MetroTix at 314-534-1111. For help purchasing accessible seating, please call The Family Arena ADA Hotline at 636-896-4234.

Three-time GRAMMY®Award-winning multiplatinum bandMaroon 5 have announced the first details of their upcoming 2018 world tour produced by Live Nation, which is happening in conjunction with the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, Red Pill Blues. The first leg of the band’s Red Pill Bluesworld tour will kick off on May 30, 2018at the Tacoma Domein Tacoma, WA.Tickets for the multi-city tour went on sale Saturday, November 4

appearances by SZA, Julia Michaels, A$AP Rockyand LunchMoney Lewis, the album includes both a 10-track standard edition, as well as deluxe version. The band kicked off the release week for their new album with a series of television appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, TODAY and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Trevor Noah is the most successful comedian in Africa and is the host of the Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central. This year “The Daily Show” has been nominated for a WritersGuild Award (Comedy/Variety Series). Noah joined “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” in 2014 as a contributor.

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Born in South Africa to a black South African mother and a white European father, Noah has hosted numerous television shows including South Africa’s music, television and film awards, and two seasons of his own late night talk show, “Tonight with Trevor Noah.”

In November2016, Trevor released his first book“Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,”which was an instantNew York Times bestseller.Additionally, hisperformanceon theBorn a Crimeaudiobook was Audible’s highest rated audiobookof2016, and has remainedoneofthe top selling titleson Audible since its release.The book also recently receivedtwo NAACP Image Awards,one for Outstanding Literary Work by aDebut Author and another for Outstanding Literary Work in the Biography/Auto-Biography category.

The book iscollection of personal stories about growing up in South Africa during the last gasps of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that came with its demise. Already known for his incisive social and political commentary, here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers an intimate look at the world that shaped him.

These are true stories, sometimes dark, occasionally bizarre, frequently tender, andalways hilarious. Whether subsisting on caterpillars during months of extreme poverty or making comically hapless attempts at teenage romance, from the time he was thrown in jail to the time he was thrown from a speeding car driven by murderous gangsters, the experiences covered in this book will shock and amaze, even as they leave you rolling on the floor with laughter.The audiobook version performed by Trevor Noah is currently availablefrom Audible Studios.